August and I slept on the couch bed until he woke up and I took him up to Carly at 3:45. Then, he was up at 6:34 but Carly got him back to sleep. She left, and he slept until he came down just after 7:50. I picked him up in time to see the street cleaner truck sweeping our street. Watched some Care Bears and he asked for the round crackers we had bought, so we tried some of those. We then had a piece of toast and our biscuit spread while I made eggs and cheese and cauliflower for breakfast. He ate a lot of that, and we read Peppa Around the World
Tried new shows. He wanted to try new shows on Netflix and we watched a minute of 3 or 4 of them and he (and I) didn’t like any of them. He settled on playing Gro Garden, which he hasn’t done for some time, then helped me clean the toilet.
We spotted some ants and August took credit: “I made crumbs for the ants…Normally, I make crumbs for th ants cuz I don’t like crumbs…” We went outside for a bit. There was a broken bit of the tile I was trying to match to a broken spot and August helped with that. And we investigated the sap situation on the trees. Back inside we took care of more ants, then he played Animal Hospital on the floor of the bathroom while I took a shower.
We discussed our plans and he wanted to know how pipes are both cleaned and made. We started with the Flynne game though. At one point he started talking about “How people die (kill?) themselves.” Turned out he was saying “their cells” instead of “themselves”. He was talking about cells dying in the body and getting new ones.
We then watched pipe and welding videos and how pillows are made. He was a machine: “I’m making something. I’m making some sort of material.” We got the books out to decide which to return to the library. We read Merle the High Flying Squirrel and A Birthday for Frances and he decided to return all the books. He played Human Body and I made lunch – a pizza which he ate most of.
Getting ready to go a little before 2 he saw me open the door and said “Are you going to leave me behind?…But I want you to leave me behind.” We walked to the school, and at the construction site he told me he had seen where the cement comes out of the big truck that was there. We first went to the library, which he was a bit frustrated with because he thought we were going to the pool first. But he helped choose 8 new books to check out: two Berenstain Bears (Don’t Pollute and Think of Those in Need), Bill Peet’s Farewell to Shady Glade (they also have Merle the Squirrel), The Story of Babar, a Charlie and Lola book called Look after Your Planet, a Splat the Cat book called Fishy Tales, a book by Sherman Alexis called Thunder Boy Jr. (that’s more for Carly), and a fun looking book called Jumpy Jack & Googily.
He had been complaining that he was too sweaty in the very cold library and that was why he wanted to go to the pool. But when he finished playing with the big stuffed animals (he took off his shoes) he was ready to go look for the butterfly garden. We went and found it. Very sunny, so he didn’t want to get out of the stroller, but he smelled some flowers from there. We then went and changed, heard the school bell while in the bathroom (earlier he had talked about wanting to hear the bell again), and got in the pool. He had gone to the bathroom when we changed, but about 3:40 he needed to go again, and we met Carly coming out of the bathrooms as we went in. Back at the pool they played in the pool for awhile while I sat and read. Then I got in and we did more chasing of mama. I also swam under August a couple times. There had been a mom and daughter swimming around earlier, and August got splashed a few times, and he loudly hollered towards them “Don’t splash me!”
We got out at 4:45 and changed and left. He ate a bunch of raisins on the way home and we were home before 5:30. He did the immune system on Human Body, making the person sick by allowing germs into wounds. We crossed out our goals on the whiteboard and then he played the Flynne game with Carly. He was the shrews and sprayed her a couple times, but it mainly turned into farming game a la Gro Garden, as he grew apples, potatoes, French fries, etc. for her, adding sun and water to them until the were ready to pick for her: “But I do grow toothpaste plants.” “I’m gonna grow rug plants.” He and I read half of Berenstain Bears Don’t Pollute and Peppa Pig Around the World and then all of Sarah and Duck at the Library. In that book, where they are trying to cheer up the donkey, I asked what helps him cheer up. He finally said “Blinking”. We used that on him, somewhat successfully, when he got upset at the end of his shower and when he hit his head.
I gave him a shower. He did just fine for most of it. I said something about me being his wonderful dada, and he joked: “No, you’re not my wonderful dada; you’re my mean dada. You’re always mean.” He was joking then, but then got quite sad and upset as I finished rinsing his hair. Carly came up, and he was playing on the bed and bonked his head on the wall. He was upset and it took some work to get him on the toilet. Carly was trying to cheer him up by sort of dancing in and out of the door. He was laughing a lot but then screaming and saying “If you don’t stop, I will hit you.” I left them at 8:10 and he was asleep by 8:20.
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